It was an honour to have Prof S Sadagopan, Director IIIT Bangalore, as the chairperson of the Meltingpot2020, a landmark movement, an initiative by CL Educate, that is working towards bringing youthful, research-oriented entrepreneurial education institutions and innovation fostering industry players.

(Prof Sadagopan interacting with Dr. Mashelkar, former chairperson of CSIR, the keynote speaker at MeltingPot2020)

Prof Sadagopan, in his opening remarks spoke about how the time has come for both, educational institutions and industry, to work together with technology playing the role of innovation amplifier to solve problems that will change the nation.

IT as innovation Amplifier

Core competence of most of us who started in 1960s –

We digitized everything over the forty years

Changed industry after industry

2Ts were the largest exports

Tea, to drink

T for textile

IT is the largest now

8bn dollar revenues today

MMT changed how travel industry works

Today innovation has changed how governments functioning

IT has been enabler and amplier of innovation

Kapital needs is much smaller in tech space compared to other spaces

NEXT PRACTICE, from CK Prahalad, one of the foremost thinkers India has produced in the modern times spoke about how next practice is what we need to focus upon

For the youngsters, your time has come, with all humility we can change the world

Our generation went to the US, worked for the best, for the US and Europe

We contributed a lot, that shows up… GOOGLE and Microsoft

SATYAM, SIVAM, SUNDARAM….soon we will have a SIVAM joining Satya of Microsoft and Sundar of Google

Solving problems in India

From 2010 things have changed

Indians solving India’s problems, in India

They have global reach

Tweak the innovations with price-performance parameters

Examples

Railway reservation

A 60 kg human being had to go 16kms for reserving his seat, one day gone

Now we can have it in a jiffy, from anywhere. With millions doing reservations every day; imagine the man days saved, at one-tenth cost